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Surgeon Atul Gawande among MacArthur Geniuses

 Indian-origin surgeon Atul Gawande, whose many articles and essays on medicine in The New Yorker have made him one of the most recognised of American writers, has won a $500,000 "genius" award from......

Meet MacArthur Genius Sujatha Baliga

 Sujatha Baliga won America's most prestigious fellowship for her work on the journey to forgiveness and restorative justice.P Rajendran reports from New York. IMAGE: Sujatha Baliga, the only......

2 Indians win MacArthur's 'genius' fellowship

 Two Indians are among the 24 talented individuals named for the prestigious MacArthur fellowship programme 2009. Computer Vision Technologist Maneesh Agrawala and Applied Mathematics specialist L......

MacArthur Fellowship for 2 Indian-American scientists

 Two Indian-American scientists are among 23 scientists who have won this year's prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for showing exceptional creativity in their respective fields. The Indian-Americans......

Indian American techie wins prestigious US award

 Shwetak Patel, a 29-year-old computer scientist who has invented a series of sensor technology systems for home environments with the goal of saving energy and improving daily life through a broad......

Indian-American named MacArthur Fellow

 Indian-American environmental engineer Kartik Chandran, left, has been named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow and given a 'genius' grant of $625,000 for working on a novel solution to the world's need for......

Economics Nobel for India-born Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, M Kremer

 The trio introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty IMAGE: The portraits of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kreme, who......

Abhijit Banerjee and the mystique of the Nobel Prize

 Does Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel Prize help India reduce extreme poverty, asks Rajeev Srinivasan. IMAGE: Professor Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. Photograph: Brian......

4 Indians among Fortune's most powerful people in biz under 40

 Four Indians, including a Harvard University professor and the co-founder of India's largest online marketplace Snapdeal, have been named by Fortune in its list of the 40 most powerful, influential......

Vijay Iyer: America's Indian Jazz Genius

 Vijay Iyer, the critically acclaimed jazz musician, is the only Indian American among this year's 24 MacArthur Geniuses. Rediff.com's Chaya Babu speaks to the musical genius. "They just call you up......

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